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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Chall's Stage 0
ALTA
MSLE
Curriculum referenced tests
2. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Suffix
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
3. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Progress Monitoring
Vowel
Percentile
Reliability
4. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Old English
Standard Scores
Greek layer of language
Kinesthetic
5. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
SBOE
Auditory Processing
Whole Language
VAKT
6. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Derived Score
James Hinshelwood
Three Layers of Language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
7. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Syntax
Consonant Digraph
Cognition
Pre-English
8. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
V-e
Sight Words
Kinesthetic
9. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Funding
GORT
Universal Screening
10. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Norm-Referenced Test
Diagnostic Teaching
Syntax
Joe Torgesen
11. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Orthography
Modification
Tilde
Derived Score
12. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Macron
Percentile/ percentile rank
13. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Auditory Learners
Open Syllable
Stanine Scores
14. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Visual Processing
Progress Monitoring
Suffix
15. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Norm-Referenced Test
Anglo Saxon
Multisensory
James Hinshelwood
16. r-controlled syllable
Diagnostic tests
Pre-English
Percentile
Vr
17. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Battery
Cedilla
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Cognitive Assessment
18. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Cedilla
Norm-referenced tests
Grade equivalents
Rate
19. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
[-'le
Impulsivity
Texas Education Code 28.06
Mathew Effect
20. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Standard deviation
Grapheme
Whole Language
Criterion-Referenced Test
21. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Grapheme
Fluency
Old English
Cedilla
22. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
James Hinshelwood
Syllable
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
23. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Grapheme
Norm-referenced tests
Ability
Sight Words
24. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
IEP
V-e
Reliability
Morphology
25. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Direct Instruction
Cedilla
26. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Visual Learners
Mastery level
Joe Torgesen
27. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Diagnostic Teaching
Chall's Stage 2
Multi-Sensory Approach
Sound Symbol Association
28. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Phonemic/ decodable words
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Auditory Learners
Progress Monitoring
29. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Chall's Stage 5
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Visual Learners
Raw score
30. Academic Language Therapy Association
Chall's Stage 3
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
ALTA
31. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
MSLE
Multi-Sensory Approach
Funding
32. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Cognition
Vowel
Tactile
33. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mathew Effect
Norm-Referenced Test
Prefix
Attention
34. Closed syllable
Letter naming Chart
Raw score
Consonant Digraph
VC
35. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Grapheme
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Derived Score
Adolf Kusmaul
36. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Phonological Awareness
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Criterion-Referenced Test
Suffix
37. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Closed Syllable
Modification
Accent
GORT
38. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
V >
Linguistic Method
Dyslexia
V-e
39. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Pre-English
Cognitive Assessment
Chall's Stage 3
Phonemic Awareness
40. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Semantics
[-'le
Dyslexia
WIATII
41. Final stable syllable
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42. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonics approach
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
43. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Samuel T. Orton
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
ESL
IDEA
44. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Simultaneous teaching
Phonics approach
45. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
GORT
Grapheme
Adolf Kusmaul
Profile
46. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
ADHD
Tactile
Battery
Adolf Kusmaul
47. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Phonemic/ decodable words
Ability
Phonics approach
Standard score
48. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Ability
Consonant Digraph
Grapheme
Social language
49. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonics
Suffix
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
50. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Stanine Scores
Tilde
Three Layers of Language
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction